Top sprinters dropping like flies

[Arazi]

http://runningmagazine.ca/sections/...ing-test-wont-compete-at-world-championships/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jul/14/tyson-gay-tests-positive-banned-substance

Both admit guilt, thats 2 of the fastest 100m runners of all time, makes you wonder who's next, i hope Bolt isnt involved in this, it would destroy the sport

 

[Skillmister]

i hope Bolt isnt involved in this, it would destroy the sport

It's extremely naive of you to think he isn't.

 

[Xordium]

Ben Johnson 9.86 obviously cheated.
Bolt 9.58 only 22 years later without cheating - come on don't say you believe we've progressed that much.

 

[UncleRuckus]

Gay blames 'accident' and pulls out of world championships

* sniggers *

 

[Danthus]

Certain sports are so tainted now that anyone who performs well is likely to be accused of doping.

There is no chance of the England football team having to deal with those accusations.

 

[StriderX]

http://runningmagazine.ca/sections/...ing-test-wont-compete-at-world-championships/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jul/14/tyson-gay-tests-positive-banned-substance

Both admit guilt, thats 2 of the fastest 100m runners of all time, makes you wonder who's next, i hope Bolt isnt involved in this, it would destroy the sport

I really won't get why people call it a sport, it is hardly complex.

All in all such "sports" could use a little drug use, considering how many people do them anyway...

 

[Xordium]

Certain sports are so tainted now that anyone who performs well is likely to be accused of doping.

There is no chance of the England football team having to deal with those accusations.

Must be a lot of professional footballers in kidney failure then with all that EPO flying around.

 

[Goksly]

Doesn't this usually happen in batches... As they all get that vitamins and supplements from someone they trust who ends up using banned substances?

 

[Castiel]

Let them dope....if they all do it then there is a level playing field....if they kill themselves, then tough.

 

[Heliospherez]

No - they get caught because the drugs they are using no longer evade the testing methods - and the doping agencies have at last managed to tune their machines/software to the new chemical responses -nothing more.

As was the case with the blood removal/doping and then transfusions just below the detectable limits in cycling - or the new/designer stimulants used in athletics. The (real) top athletes will always have the best doctors/chemists/nutritionists to "help" them along

Anyone who believes that the winners are just taking a high protein diet or a chicken breast or two extra are kidding themselves.

 

[Arazi]

It's extremely naive of you to think he isn't.

Not being naive, more wishful thinking, part of me has always thought that what he has done is to good to be true so to speak

 

[Arazi]

Let them dope....if they all do it then there is a level playing field....if they kill themselves, then tough.

My thoughts for a long time

 

[JAzz]

There is no chance of the England football team having to deal with those accusations.

Football isn't quite as clean as you like to think it is. There is no blood testing in football for starters so is a lot harder to for authorities to catch anyone and then look at the recent case of Eufemiano Fuentes. It is hard to believe that football is completely clean when you look more deeply into him.

 

[doofer]

I think the testers are just taking the **** TBH.

 

[Freddie1980]

Doesn't this usually happen in batches... As they all get that vitamins and supplements from someone they trust who ends up using banned substances?

It's probably more to do with detection technology catching up with the technology designed to avoid detection.

As for all the insinuate about Bolt its deeply unfair and even if he did cail a test it would destroy his career and Richard Branson won't be best pleased but the sport will go on and find new stars as its always been.

 

[Danthus]

Football isn't quite as clean as you like to think it is. There is no blood testing in football for starters so is a lot harder to for authorities to catch anyone and then look at the recent case of Eufemiano Fuentes. It is hard to believe that football is completely clean when you look more deeply into him.

I think you took my tongue in cheek comment a touch seriously, saying that, you are probably right to a degree.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

Let them dope....if they all do it then there is a level playing field....

Except its not. People react differently to doping and so some get a bigger advantage than others. Also those with more money get better doctors and more efficient / effective regimes.

You need look no further than cycling and Lance Armstrong for proof of this.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

Football isn't quite as clean as you like to think it is. There is no blood testing in football for starters so is a lot harder to for authorities to catch anyone and then look at the recent case of Eufemiano Fuentes. It is hard to believe that football is completely clean when you look more deeply into him.

There is blood testing in football and its saved a number of lives as one of the markers for testosterone abuse is also a markers for testicular cancer. See Alan Stubbs as an example.

Edit: That may have been a urine test.

 

[RomanNose]

Except its not. People react differently to doping and so some get a bigger advantage than others. Also those with more money get better doctors and more efficient / effective regimes.

You need look no further than cycling and Lance Armstrong for proof of this.

Tbh it's not exactly a level playing field at the moment. Genes and build will make a difference, and more money also allows you get to get better training.
Don't really see how allowing drugs will make that much of a difference in terms of equality.

 

[Xordium]

Football is urine testing not blood and lax at that - if Rio Ferdinand had of done what he had done in athletics his careers would have been over.